Saturday, December 08, 2018

What makes IVF babies different?

A lot of
couples are worried that IVF babies are weaker than other babies, or have a
higher risk of having birth defects.

Yes, it is
true that IVF babies are different, and what makes them different is the fact
that they're special, because their parents spend so much time and energy on nurturing them, because they're so deeply loved.

From a
biological perspective, an IVF baby is exactly like any other normal baby, and
this is hardly surprising given the fact that all we're doing in an IVF cycle
is mimicking nature. In simple terms, IVF allows us to do what’s not happening
in the bedroom in the IVF lab.

Instead of
the sperm fertilizing the eggs in the Fallopian tube ( like they do normally
for fertile couples) , we're fertilizing them in the test tube in the IVF lab ,
and then transferring the embryo into the uterus.

This is why
there is no increased risk of birth defects, and this can be very reassuring
for patients !

It's high
time that we busted a lot of these myths surrounding IVF babies !